Ko Jou Chen
Ko Jou Chen - 'Portable Passages: vessel pendant_01', 2025
Portable Passages brings together a series of vessels and pendants that sit between object and adornment. The vessels resemble candle holders, yet are almost rings; the pendants trace the silhouettes of vessels, yet are almost miniature objects for display. Each piece carries a quiet sense of in-betweenness - something that can be held, worn, or observed. Through these shifting forms, the works reflect my ongoing interest in how crafted objects hold stillness and transformation at once, and how they can exist in that delicate space of almost, between the body and the place it inhabits.
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Ko Jou Chen is a Taiwanese artist based in Naarm/Melbourne whose practice includes contemporary jewellery, object-making, and spatial installation. Her work explores materiality, memory, and the quiet rituals of domestic space. Through making and display, she reflects on how objects can hold stillness, comfort, and presence within the shifting environments she inhabits.
Chen is completing a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University, following a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT and an Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design from Melbourne Polytechnic. She received The Future Leaders Award at Fresh! (Craft Victoria, 2024) and the JMGA Award at Graduate Metal XVI (JMGA, 2024).
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Materials: Copper, brass, silk thread
Dimensions: 45 x 35 x 8mm